Improved marine faint



WILLIAM H. LEWIS, I HIMSELF AND JOHN B. roman-or taint enoa new dtfiflirr.

or BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO SAME PLACE.

Letters Patent No. 95,494, dated October 5. 1869.

IMPROVED MARINE PAINT.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part0! the lame.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that 1, WILLIAM H. LEWIS, of Boston, in the county of Sufi'olk, and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and improved Marine Paint; and I do hereby declare that'the following is a full and exact description thereof.

.The basis of my said improved manne paint is a solution of caoutchouc or gutta-percha, in tar-naphtha or other naphtha, which contains benzole and its congeners, and to this basis I add about twenty-five per.

cent. in volume of gronnrbpxide of copper, and thoroughly incorporate the same into a homogeneous mass.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-,

The; employment of a solution of caontchouc' or gutt-a-percha, iota-naphtha, or other. naphtha, containing benzole and its congeners, as a basis in the production of a marine paint.

Also, as a new manufacture, or. composition of matter, an improved marine paint, composed of a solution of eaoutohouc or gutta-percha, in tar-naphtha, or other naphtha, containing benzole and its congene'rs, in combination with oxide of copper, or other poisonousmineral substance, which is slowly soluble in water, containing alkaline chlorides insolution.

The aforegoing specification of my new composition or basis for an improved marine paint, signed and wit nessed, this 8th day of June, I868.

WILLIAM H. LEWIS.

Witnesses: SAM. N. FIsKE, P, L. CLARKE. 

